Sign of the Apocalypse #2

Scopitone Saturday!!

This week's selection is a strange hybrid of Paris tourism and a general dislike of the English. It features a woman singing in French about the English and then a very bored woman in a bikini dancing, presumably also about the English, in that way that you can 'dance about' something in an interpretive sense. It is both AMAZING and mildly offensive, which makes it somehow DOUBLY AMAZING.

a ROBOT that makes MUSIC

As the headline indicates this post is about a ROBOT that makes MUSIC. Its name (as robots tend to eschew gendered identities) is the VX-323 and it is AMAZING, not only because it is a robot that makes music but because the music is also very good. It is often best to let artists describe themselves, so here's the 'About Me' from VX's Myspace: "I am the VX-323: singer, songwriter, musician. My main function is as a speech synthesizer. I speak many languages in many voices, and can keep a beat. My interests and passions are many and varied - including electronic device/robot rights issues, technology, and the FUTURE. Although a serious artist, I am not too serious to appreciate the bling, DC devices, and high energy charges I will get when I become famous. "

AMAZING.

Kylie update from Denmark

It's only a few weeks now until Kylie hits the U.S. for the first time (AMAZING), and here are some pics via her official website of her performing in Denmark. They are very small. But so is Kylie so it all works out.

Whitney struggles through a pretty fun song

The whole Whitney comeback train suffered a setback with that messy ballad she put out first, but this new, Alicia Keys-penned disco-y track is a lot more fun. What's up with the voice though? Crack kills, kids.



Hits radio in the US Aug 17

Gaga insanity update #4

7digital One-Ups iTunes

Online MP3 retailer 7digital and Warner Records today announced a new deal that will give 7digital the broadest European coverage of any outlet. Warner, which converted to an all-digital catalog recently, is allowing the retailer to offer high quality downloads of its tracks not only online, but in a number of shops around the EU. Unlike iTunes, 7digital was never bogged down with DRM issues, and seems to have largely side-stepped international licensing concerns. Now that 7digital is available in more European countries than iTunes, the startup certainly seems the retailer to beat. All the details are here.

Your Thursday mid-table R&B Fix

Jade Ewen did not win Eurovision. But she did make a video for an okay song that sounds a lot like a song that would have come out about five years ago. Beware, though, listeners...it's a guilty pleasure grower.



Out on Polydor later this fall.